Jay Mistry wrote: > Steven, > > Thanks for the reply. > > As an alternative, would it be possible to extract all files from the > zipped image files (files in the image folder are as in the pict > uploaded here: http://www.imagebam.com/image/fa2dd659800375) and then > copy them over to the /home partition. I don't need to copy the MBR or > "hidden data between MBR and first partition" since this is a /home > partition and the MBR is installed on the / (root) partition, hence > just need the data files. > > Is there a way to extract all content from the image files, i.e. to > extract all data from the compressed files < > 'sdb1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.aa' to 'sdb1.ext4-ptcl-img.gz.ad' > (as in > the picture in the link above) and then copy it to /home partition > (/dev/sdb1 in this case), using a Linux live CD (such as Parted Magic > or similar live CD) ? > You have to find a working space to do that. One of the choices is to use virtual machine, e.g. virtualbox. You might refer to this: http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/68_manually_partclone_restore.faq#68_manually_partclone_restore.faq
Steven. > If this is possible, then there would be no need to resize/expand the > /home partition. > > Thanks, > > Jay > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Steven Shiau <ste...@nchc.org.tw> wrote: > >> Hi Jay, >> Sorry... no... the target partition must be larger than the source one. This >> is still the limitation of Clonezilla (actually it's the limitation of >> partclone, ntfsclone or partimage). >> >> Steven. >> >> Jay Mistry wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I made an image of /home partition of Ubuntu installation about 3 >>> months back using Clonezilla-Live CD (Jaunty-12082009), the original >>> partition size of /home was 35 GB (about 10 GB used, 25 GB free). >>> After that I shrunk the /home partition from 35 GB to 22 GB. >>> Now, when I try to restore the /home partition using the same version >>> of Clonezilla-Live CD, with default options, it gives an error message >>> that the destination partition is smaller than the source >>> (the image should fit into the re-sized 22 GB partition, since the >>> data size is only 10 GB and only used blocs are imaged). >>> >>> Is there a way to override this error message? I tried to look in the >>> advanced option of Clonezilla, but there is no option for this. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jay >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Return on Information: >>> Google Enterprise Search pays you back >>> Get the facts. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Clonezilla-live mailing list >>> Clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live >>> >> -- >> Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> >> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. >> http://www.nchc.org.tw >> Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A >> Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Return on Information: > Google Enterprise Search pays you back > Get the facts. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Clonezilla-live mailing list > Clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live > -- Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org> National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan. http://www.nchc.org.tw Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Clonezilla-live mailing list Clonezilla-live@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clonezilla-live
